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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170510T190000
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SUMMARY:Smut: An Unseemly Story (The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson)
DESCRIPTION:One of England’s finest and most loved writers\, Alan Bennett\, explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in this tender and surprising story. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson\, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient for medical students\, and renting out her spare room. Quiet\, middle-class\, and middle-aged\, Mrs. Donaldson will soon discover that she rather enjoys role-play at the hospital\, and the irregular and startling entertainment provided by her tenants.A master storyteller dissects a very English form of secrecy with this story of the unexpected in otherwise apparently ordinary lives.  Directed by Amy Kossow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/smut-an-unseemly-story-the-greening-of-mrs-donaldson/
LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170525T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170525T200000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223909
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SUMMARY:Joel Selvin + John Hell
DESCRIPTION:If 1967’s Summer of Love heralded a sea change in San Francisco\, the disastrous events at Altamont in late 1969 heralded quite another. In Altamont: The Rolling Stones\, The Hells Angels\, And The Inside Story Of Rock’s Darkest Day\, Joel Selvin\, longtime music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle\, details every way in which the presumptive “Woodstock West” dissolved into chaos and bloodshed\, a bracing reminder that some of the “good old days” were not as nostalgia would paint them. Joining Selvin onstage will be local radio luminary John Hell (Radio Free Burning Man\, Radio Valencia)\, for an in-depth Q & A about one of rock music’s most notorious moments.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joel-selvin-and-john-hell/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170525T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170525T200000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223909
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SUMMARY:6 Years in Gay Conversion Therapy
DESCRIPTION:Peter Gajdics is the author of The Inheritance of Shame\, just published by Brown Paper Press\, which tells the harrowingly true story of his six years in Gay conversion therapy. \nGarrard Conley\, author of Boy Erased\, says the Gajdics memoir is “a necessary\, incredibly nuanced portrait of a survivor. The Inheritance of Shame will change lives.” Gajdics\, from Canada\, appears with East Bay author Lucy Jane Bledsoe Thursday\, May 25\, 7-8 p.m. at Laurel Bookstore\, 1423 Broadway\, in Oakland. Bledsoe will interview Gajdics\, and both authors will read from their work. Bledsoe’s newest novel\, A Thin Bright Line\, is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. The New York Times says Bledsoe’s book “triumphs as an intimate and humane evocation of day-to-day life under inhumane circumstances.” \nFree admission and free refreshments. A book signing follows the discussion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/6-years-in-gay-conversion-therapy/
LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170525T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170525T210000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223909
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime DEFIANCE
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime DEFIANCE\, on Thursday May 25th\, 7-9 pm\, at Ale Industries\, 3096 E. 10th Street\, Oakland\, will feature Micheline Aharaonian Marcom (A Brief History of Yes)\, Brynn Saito (Power Made Us Swoon)\, Vernon Keeve III (Southern Migrant Mixtape)\, and others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-defiance/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170525T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170525T210000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223909
CREATED:20170425T014945Z
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey Tambor
DESCRIPTION:A Broadway star\, a television legend\, an accomplished screen actor whose singular wit and heartrending performances have been entertaining audiences for more than four decades\, but the question remains: who the hell is Jeffrey Tambor? \nIn his illuminating\, often hilarious\, and always unflinchingly honest memoir\, Are You Anybody?\, Tambor looks back at the key moments in his life that taught him about creativity and play and pain and fear. The son of what you might call eccentric Russian and Hungarian Jewish parents\, Tambor grew up in San Francisco a husky kid with a lisp who suffered in his otherness\, and found salvation in the theater. \nWhile he learned his art from the best of the best—Al Pacino\, George C. Scott\, Garry Shandling\, Jill Soloway—he also introduces his many unexpected teachers\, from the nameless man in a Detroit bookstore who gave him the love of reading\, to his young children who (at this ridiculously late stage in his life) have re-introduced him to play\, bravery\, and the simple joy of not giving a shit. \nTambor shares the triumph of landing his first Broadway role\, but not before experiencing the humbling that is commercial work (and how even saying my socks don’t cling can prove a challenge). He invites you behind the scenes of his wildly successful television shows\, but he doesn’t leave out the pit stops he made at addiction\, Scientology\, and what it feels like to get fourth billing after Sylvia the Seal on The Love Boat. \nAt last\, Tambor answers the question ARE YOU ANYBODY? with a promise that success doesn’t mean perfection and failure most definitely is an option.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeffrey-tambor/
LOCATION:Roxie Theatre\, 3117 16th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170525T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170525T210000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223909
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SUMMARY:Alan Lessik
DESCRIPTION:With non-fiction works include news articles published in the Advocate\, San Francisco Bay Guardian\, and Frontiers\, local author Alan Lessik shares his debut work of fiction\, The Troubleseekers. \nThe Troubleseeker tells the contemporary odyssey of Antinio\, a native-born Cuban who confronts his gay identity in post-revolution Cuba and as a refugee in America. Narrated by the ancient Roman Emperor and demigod Hadrian\, The Troubleseeker weaves Cuban Santería traditions with classical Greek mythology to depict Antinio’s quest to achieve both freedom and love. \n\n“Lessik’s prose is always sympathetic and eloquent.” —Kirkus Reviews \n“An exceedingly rich novel\, reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.” —ALA GLBT Reviews \n“This stunningly creative novel combines history and mythology from several cultures to tell the story of Antinio\, a gay Cuban man\, as he searches for freedom and love in the face of oppression and disease.” —Charles Green\, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-lessik/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170525T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170525T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223909
CREATED:20170501T130734Z
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SUMMARY:Ada Calhoun + T.J. Stiles
DESCRIPTION:Ada Calhoun & T.J. Stiles in Conversation\n\n\n\n\nabout Calhoun’s essay collection\, Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give. \n“This unflinchingly honest\, astutely balanced probe of a most perplexing institution asks all the right questions. It sets up a conversation with the reader\, who is challenged to reflect at each point\, choosing between ‘No\, that’s not me’ and ‘How did she know that?’ Most of the time\, she knows.”–Phillip Lopate\, author of The Art of the Personal Essay \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, May 25\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nWe hear plenty about whether or not to get married\, but much less about what it takes to stay married. Cliches around marriage–eternal bliss\, domestic harmony\, soul mates–leave out the real stuff. After marriage you may still want to sleep with other people. Sometimes your partner will bore the hell out of you. And when stuck paying for your spouse’s mistakes\, you might miss being single. \nIn Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give\, Ada Calhoun\, acclaimed for her provocative essays in the New York Times Modern Love and Lives columns\, presents an unflinching but also loving portrait of her own marriage\, opening a long-overdue conversation about the institution as it truly is: not the happy ending of a love story or a relic doomed by high divorce rates\, but the beginning of a challenging new chapter of which the first twenty years are the hardest. \nCalhoun’s funny\, poignant personal essays explore the bedrooms of modern coupledom for a nuanced discussion of infidelity\, existential anxiety\, and the many other obstacles to staying together. Both realistic and openhearted\, Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give offers a refreshing new way to think about marriage as a brave\, tough\, creative decision to stay with another person for the rest of your life. What a burden–Calhoun calls marriage–and what a gift. \nAda Calhoun has written for the New York Times\, New York magazine\, and the New York Post. Her book St. Marks Is Dead was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Boston Globe Best Book of the Year.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ada-calhoun-t-j-stiles/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170525T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170525T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223909
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LAST-MODIFIED:20170505T001730Z
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SUMMARY:Dan Bellm + Ann Pellertier
DESCRIPTION:Dan Bellm’s new book is Deep Well. Alicia Ostriker says\, “With a touch on the keys of language as light as the air we breathe\, Dan Bellm traces his mother’s death\, and abides her continuing presence…Deep Well is a book of the purest poetry I have read in a long time. I am grateful for it.” He’s published three previous collections\, including Practice\, which won the 2009 California Book Award. He’s also a translator\, whose books include Speaking in Song by Mexican poet Pura López Colomé\, Description of a Flash of Cobalt Blue by Mexican poet Jorge Esquinca\, and The Song of the Dead by French poet Pierre Reverdy. His honors include a prize from the Cleveland State University Poetry Center and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council. \nAnn Pelletier’s debut full-length book of poems is Letter That Never. Carol Snow says\, “With each of these ‘imagined autobiographies’—unnamed\, evocative\, formally inventive—Ann Pelletier seeks\, seeks to offer\, a haunting solace at the edge of forgetting and being forgotten.” Raised in upstate New York; Madrid\, Spain; and New Hampshire\, she has been published in The Antioch Review\, New American Writing\, Volt\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dan-bellm-ann-pellertier/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170525T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170525T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223909
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SUMMARY:Kerry Egan: On Living
DESCRIPTION:erry Egan discusses her new book\, On Living with Victoria Sweet. \n\nPraise for On Living \n\nThere’s nothing preachy about this book\, nor is it at all depressing — although it is terribly moving. This is a poetic and philosophical and brave and uplifting meditation on how important it is to make peace and meaning of our lives while we still have them.—Elizabeth Gilbert\, author of Eat\, Pray\, Love \n\n“It’s a brave thing to walk into the rooms of the dying with no props–to sit down\, open your heart and your mind\, and be present to whatever comes up. But that’s exactly what chaplain Kerry Egan does\, and in On Living\, she reveals some of what she has learned. What does come up? Anger\, love\, regret\, secrets\, stories\, and insights\, well-told and well-felt.” —Victoria Sweet\, author of God’s Hotel \n\n“When I forget the importance of kindness\, when I forget to listen\, when I no longer recognize the comfort of a quiet presence\, when no words will help\, when I lose sight of what is most important\, I will want On Living within arm’s reach\, always. I love this book.” —Abigail Thomas\, author of A Three Dog Life and What Comes Next and How to Like It
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kerry-egan-on-living/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170526T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170526T200000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223909
CREATED:20170515T234349Z
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SUMMARY:Maggie Scott: Still Here
DESCRIPTION:Still Here brings the voices of San Francisco raised LGBTQ persons to conversations of San Francisco as a queer or gay homeland. These artists provide representation of recent San Francisco Histories of the 80s and 90\, specifically addressing what it was like to grow up\, come out and come of age in San Francisco. Through their performances\, these artists challenge imaginaries of San Francisco\, share their experiences of navigating sexuality in San Francisco\, and claim a space of visibility.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maggie-scott-still-here/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170526T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170526T210000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223909
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LAST-MODIFIED:20170502T005605Z
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SUMMARY:Uptown Fridays: MG Roberts + Melissa Eleftherion
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an Uptown Fridays reading you won’t forget\, featuring readings by MG Roberts and Melissa Eleftherion\, with musical guest Heather Jovanelli \nSuggested donations of $5-25 collected at the door\, but no one turned away for lack of funds. \nRed wine and Red Bay coffee will be available. \nInformation about performers: \nBorn in Subic Bay\, Philippines\, Mg Roberts is the author of the poetry collections Anemal Uter Meck (Black Radish Books\, 2017) and not so\, sea (Durga Press\, 2014). She is a Kundiman Fellow\, Kelsey Street Press member\, VONA/Voices Alum\, and sits on the Board of Small Press Traffic. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Drunken Boat\, Cream City Review\, the Stanford Journal of Asian American Studies\, Dusie\, Bombay Gin\, Web Conjunctions\, Elderly and elsewhere. She co-edited the anthology Nests and Strangers: On Asian Women Poets (Kelsey Street Press) along with Timothy Yu and is currently co-editing Responses\, New Writing\, Flesh with Ronaldo Wilson and Bhanu Kapil; an anthology on the urgency of avant-garde writing written for and by writers of color. She lives in Oakland with her three daughters\, two hens\, one puppy\, and geologist husband. \nMelissa Eleftherion grew up in Brooklyn. She is the author of huminsec\, prism map\, Pigtail Dut\, the leaves the leave\, green glass asterism\, and several other chapbooks. Her first full-length collection\, field guide to autobiography\, is hot off the presses from H_NGM_ Books. ecent work is forthcoming in Glass\, Italian-Americana Review\, & Poet-Librarians in the Library of Babel. ounder of the Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange\, Melissa lives in Mendocino County where she works as a Teen Librarian\, teaches creative writing\, & curates the LOBA Reading Series at the Ukiah Library. More of her work can be found @ www.apoetlibrarian.wordpress.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uptown-fridays-mg-roberts-melissa-eleftherion/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170527T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170527T170000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223909
CREATED:20170430T032159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170430T032159Z
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SUMMARY:Kevin Killian Book Release
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-killian-book-release/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170527T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170527T150000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223909
CREATED:20170519T024936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170523T015014Z
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SUMMARY:STANZA: summer throwback fundraiser party
DESCRIPTION:It’s a literary party-slash-fundraiser for STANZA–hosted by the delectable Temescal Brewery in Oakland. If you don’t like fun then you’ll at least like the beer. \nThe magic letter is ‘B’:\n– Bake sale: brownies and bites made especially for you by a local book nerd. Perhaps even madelines if we’re feeling Proust-y.\n– Bike wash: does your ride need some extra shine? We’ll wax on about Bolaño without waxing off your paint.\n– Brews: Temescal Brewery is giving us proceeds from their charity brew of the day! Drink up–we can tell you’re thirsty.\n– Book matchmaking: kissing booths aren’t quite our cup of espresso\, but you *can* sit down with our experts and get matched with the book of your dreams. Hurry up loves\, your unread lit is waiting.\n– Booksigning: got unautographed books on your shelf? Gosh\, we love opportunities to practice writing our own names. Bring us any book by any author: we’ll totally sign it for you.\n– Borges’ Gamble: one lucky guy/gal wins a copy of their very own book from Borges’ never-before-seen Library of Babel! *swoon* \n—\nFUNDRAISER GOALS:\n$1\,200 pays for our set design costs\n$1\,600 pays for our set design costs and gives our performing artists a stipend so they don’t have to work for free\n$2\,000 pays for our set design costs\, gives our performing artists a stipend\, and gets us a premier venue near BART! \n—\nABOUT STANZA:\nSTANZA lies somewhere at the intersection of poetry and immersive theatre. There is no stage. No set order. No assigned seats.\nWriters perform series of evocative poems simultaneously in separate rooms. You are free to roam the entire building in search of voices.\nEnter each room fearlessly: they are designed to throw you head-first into the world of the poem. \nSITE: www.stanzapoetrysf.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stanza-summer-throwback-fundraiser-party/
LOCATION:Temescal Brewery\, 4115 Telegraph\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170527T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170527T160000
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CREATED:20170523T014536Z
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SUMMARY:Bikes to Books Springtime Ride
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 27\, 1:00-4:00 pm: Bikes to Books Annual Springtime Ride! \nMeet at 12:45 p.m. at Jack London Alley\, Northside of South Park in San Francisco \nRide will commence at 1:00 p.m. sharp \nRide will end at approximately 4:00 p.m. in North Beach\, outside City Lights Books \nCombining San Francisco history\, art\, literature\, cycling\, and urban exploration\, “Bikes to Books” began as an homage to the 1988 street-naming project spearheaded by City Lights founder and former San Francisco Poet Laureate\, Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, in which 12 San Francisco streets were renamed for famous artists and authors who had once made San Francisco their home. The resulting 7.1-mile tour is a diverting and unique way to celebrate both the literary and the adventurous spirit of San Francisco. Learn about the authors and neighborhoods that made San Francisco a known literary hub\, from South Park to North Beach\, Jack London to Jack Kerouac. \nBring bikes with gears\, snacks\, and enthusiasm. This is an urban ride of moderate difficulty\, recommended for riders 16 years of age and older.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bikes-to-books-springtime-ride/
LOCATION:Jack London Street\, Jack London Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Bikes to Books":MAILTO:bikes2books@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170527T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170527T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223909
CREATED:20170515T233255Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170515T233255Z
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Political Writing from CWC Authors
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to announce a new series with Laurel Bookstore\, beginning with: \nAN EVENING OF POLITICAL READINGS BY CWC AUTHORS \nIt’s been a while since we created a space for socializing\, and we want to provide chances for our authors to read from and promote their latest works. So we’re partnering with Laurel Books to present themed readings. Each reader will read a short passage from their work\, and when all of the works are finished\, a book signing will follow. Since everyone we know is excited to talk about politics right now\, that’s the theme we’re starting with. \nThe event is at 6 p.m. \nLaurel Book Store is located at 1423 Broadway in Oakland. \nSome of the topics will include bullying\, racism\, crowds\, progressive strategy\, the fight for a living wage\, and (never surprisingly) president Trump. \nLove politics? Hate politics? Come out and show your support! And let us know what theme you want us to do for our next reading in the series. Here are the readers we have signed up for the May 27th event. \nRSVP on Facebook \nAdd the event to your Google Calendar \nCWC Political Readers \nRansom Stephens\nAl Sandine\nAnn Berlak\nJim Beach\nGini Graham Scott\nStephen Cataldo\nMary Luersen\nKristen Caven\nKarma Bennett\nHenry Hitz
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-of-political-writing-from-cwc-authors/
LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Berkeley CWC":MAILTO:berkeley.cwc@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170527T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170527T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223909
CREATED:20170514T021456Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special: An "invisible" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:This month SNS invites you to explore the unseen. Take it literally or metaphorically. Go to the bottom of the ocean\, the North Pole\, or the center of the heart. Dream up fairies or contemplate the wind. Get microscopic. Use your hands. Write in the dark. Wrap your words in tangible abstration. Remember the emperor’s new clothes. Consider times you have felt invisible or rendered others invisible. How do we discover what we are missing? What do we know that the eyes don’t? Our theme this month is INVISIBLE. \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, dramas\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our optional theme (or any topic). \nOur May features are: Cleavon Smith and tba\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, May 27th\, 2017\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-an-invisible-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170527T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170527T220000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223909
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SUMMARY:Literary Pop!
DESCRIPTION:Literature and Pop Culture collide as the bay area’s finest storytellers\, comedians and writers gather to share work about and inspired by the pop culture that has influenced their lives.\nDoors at 7:30 show at 8pm\nTickets will be sold ONLINE Only! \nSave money now with $5.99 Early bird tickets on event brite!\nLimited quantity available! \nThis epidoe will feature:\nMarc Abrigo on the Backstreet Boys\nJason LeRoy on actress Julianne Moore\nNa’amen Tilahun on Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore\n\nalso featuring Aviva Siegel! \nHosted by Wonder Dave! \nFaultline Studios is located on Howard St. In San Francisco. This venue is on the second floor and is not handicap accessible. Literary Pop is currently looking for an affordable handicap accessible space to do our show in again in the future so please stay tuned for future events!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-pop-4/
LOCATION:Faultline Studios\, 1139 Howard St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170527T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170527T220000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223909
CREATED:20170523T014752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170523T014752Z
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SUMMARY:unsolicited release
DESCRIPTION:foreignfire: unsolicited new poetry bookart and chant release concert saturday twenty seventh may eight oclock iama ten twenty five market street san francisco fifteen to twenty dollars admission books for purchase at event and in independent bookstores preorder david@foreignfire.com\n \nhttps://www.facebook.com/foreignfirepage/\n http://www.foreignfire.com/unsolicited.html\n https://www.instagram.com/foreignfire/\n \n\ndavid katz voice movement poetry solo ensemble composition improvisation jewish liturgical singing institutions ciis (ba interdisciplinary studies) mills college (ma composition mfa improvistation)sam genovese video installation sound art institutions mills college (mfa electronic music) margaret lyon music student prize film screenings worldfest houston usa film festival johns hopkins film festival recent works entanglementing  (one man opera 2017) hive crush (album 2016) \ntim silva voice performance composition conducting music education collaborations volti throckappella iron henry institutions ucla boston conservatory holy names university \nben zucker composition improvisation voice trumpet piano collaborations mivos quartet apartment house ny virtuoso singers distractfold ensemble rinde eckert awards new composer talent international audio branding academy la percussion quartet c4 collective sf choral artists sf contemporary music players album confluere institutions wesleyan university (ba music and critical theory) leavell memorial prize brunel university london (postgraduate)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/unsolicited-release/
LOCATION:International Art Museum of America\, 1025 Market Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sunday of the Spirit: Bhagavad Gita Workshop w/ Navina Nirada Dad
DESCRIPTION:Ancient wisdom from the Bhagavad Gita for the battlefield of life. Overview\, highlights and insights for your journey as a spiritual warrior.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sunday-of-the-spirit-bhagavad-gita-workshop-w-navina-nirada-dad/
LOCATION:Mad Monk Center for Anachronistic Media\, 2454 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170530T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170530T200000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223909
CREATED:20170425T010444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T010444Z
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SUMMARY:Folio Night\, LIVE!: Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Our third community open mic night with featured reader\, Bay Area poet Tongo Eisen-Martin\, and host Wayne Goodman. Contact us a week in advance if you’re planning to read and you have a book to consign\, or bring a few extra copies to sell if we already have your book in stock. Max eight readers\, first come first signed up. Five minute time limit per reader (strictly enforced).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/folio-night-live-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170530T203000
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CREATED:20170425T015641Z
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SUMMARY:Alexandra Teague
DESCRIPTION:Alexandra Teague reads from her new novel\, The Principles Behind Flotation. \nThe Principles Behind Flotation (Skyhorse Press\, 2017) is the first novel from Alexandra Teague\, a former NEA Fellow\, Stegner Fellow\, and City College of San Francisco instructor\, currently an associate professor at University of Idaho. \nShe has previously published two poetry books—The Wise and Foolish Builders (Persea 2015) and Mortal Geography (Persea 2010)\, winner of the 2010 California Book Award. \nEchoing novels like Karen Russell’s Swamplandia! and Carol Rifka Brunt’s Tell the Wolves I’m Home\, Alexandra Teague’s lighthearted coming-of-age debut is perfect for anyone who’s navigated the strange seas of adolescence—and lived to tell the tale. \nA.Z. McKinney is on the shores of greatness. Now all she needs is a boat. \nWhen the Sea of Santiago appeared overnight in a cow pasture in Arkansas\, it seemed\, to some\, a religious miracle. But to high school sophomore A.Z. McKinney\, it’s marked her chance to make history—as its first oceanographer. All she needs is to get out on the water. \nHer plan is easier said than done\, considering the Sea’s eccentric owner is only interested in its use as a tourist destination for beachgoers and devout pilgrims. Still\, A.Z. is determined to uncover the secrets of the Sea—even if it means smuggling saline samples in her bathing suit. \nYet when a cute\, conceptual artist named Kristoff moves to town\, A.Z. realizes she may have found a first mate. Together\, they make a plan to build a boat and study the Sea in secret. But from fighting with her best friend to searching for a tourist-terrorizing alligator (that may or may not be a crocodile)\, distractions are everywhere. Soon\, A.Z.’s dreams are in danger of being dashed upon the shore of Mud Beach. \nWith her self-determined oceanic destiny on the line\, A.Z. finds herself at odds with everything she thought she knew about life\, love\, and the Sea. To get what she wants\, she’ll have to decide whether to sink or float . . . But which one comes first?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandra-teague/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170530T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170530T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223909
CREATED:20170425T011944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T011944Z
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SUMMARY:Cornelia Nixon
DESCRIPTION:Cornelia Nixon reads from her new novel\, The Use of Fame. \n“Rarely has a marriage so come alive in a work of fiction. This novel has the power of intensely lived life and the authority of absolute authenticity. The sympathetic presentations of both wife and husband are beautifully drawn. So intense\, beautifully written\, shining with ‘felt life\,’ it is truly gripping–riveting.”–Joyce Carol Oates \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, May 30\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nAbigail McCormick and Ray Stark are both poets\, married nearly twenty-five years in what has always been a passionate relationship despite deep class differences. Ray is the son of West Virginia coal miners and was abused as a child–but now he is a distinguished poet with a part-time position at Brown. Abby grew up in San Francisco’s posh Pacific Heights and\, having abandoned poetry\, she spends her energy on a new teaching position at UC Berkeley. Abby’s decision to accept the post sets the stage for Ray to stray\, especially as he struggles with a heart condition. \nHe’s tortured by his affair with the graduate student he’s fallen in love with\, but is determined to stay married–he fights to get over Tory for years. A despairing Abby finds solace in her return to riding horses and writing poems\, but as she suffers privately\, she becomes dependent on sleeping pills and alcohol. As Ray’s health worsens\, another cross-country move threatens to push them further apart. Alternating seamlessly between Ray’s and Abby’s perspectives\, The Use of Fame is a gripping exploration of how closeness and despair can warp a lover’s perception. \nCornelia Nixon is the author of three other novels\, Angels Go Naked\, Now You See It\, and Jarrettsville\, as well as a book of literary criticism. She has won two O. Henry Awards\, two Pushcart Prizes\, a Nelson Algren Prize\, and the Carl Sandburg Award for Fiction. She lives half the year in Berkeley\, and half on an island in Puget Sound.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cornelia-nixon/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170530T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170530T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223909
CREATED:20170504T234403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T234403Z
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SUMMARY:Martha Grover
DESCRIPTION:In her new memoir\, Martha Grover goes undercover. Whether cleaning houses or looking for love\, she peels back the surfaces of ordinary moments and reveals a life both hilarious and traumatic. The End of My Career sees Grover living with her parents again as she enters her late thirties\, reconciling the pleasures and perils of being female\, chronically ill\, and subsisting on menial labor at the edge of an increasingly unaffordable city. Desperate for stable work\, she gets hired as a state-sanctioned private investigator looking into shady workers’ comp claims—even while she herself fights in court for her own disability settlement. Angry and heartbroken\, brimming with the outrageous contradictions of the modern world\, The End of My Career embodies the comic nightmare of our times. \nMartha Grover is a 2017 Oregon Book Award finalist in creative nonfiction. She is also the author of One More for the People(Perfect Day\, 2011). She has been publishing her zine Somnambulistsince 2003\, and lives in Portland\, Oregon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/martha-grover/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170531T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170531T200000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223909
CREATED:20170427T025717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170427T025717Z
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SUMMARY:Such a Nasty Woman: Female Writers Respond to Trump
DESCRIPTION:Many women woke up on November 9\, 2016 and wondered if clocks had been set back 100 years. A man who bragged about his sexual assaults\, referred to women as pigs and bimbos\, and in a televised debate\, called Hillary Clinton “a nasty woman\,” had just been elected president. \nThis man has threatened to defund Planned Parenthood\, and implied that military rape is to be expected. His vice president boasts of consigning Roe v. Wade “to the ash heap of history where it belongs.” It’s enough to make a female pacifist take up arms. \nThis panel of brave\, outspoken\, and articulate authors will ask some tough questions. How can women hold their ground in such a cultural recession? And what kind of vital role can female writers play during this age of ignorance and fear? Moderated by author/journalist Vanessa Hua.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/such-a-nasty-woman-female-writers-respond-to-trump/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170531T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170531T210000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223909
CREATED:20170201T045915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170201T045915Z
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SUMMARY:Wendy Lesser
DESCRIPTION:Wendy Lesser\, founder and editor of The Threepenny Review\, discusses her landmark biography\, You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn. \nBorn to a Jewish family in Estonia in 1901 and brought to America in 1906\, the architect Louis Kahn grew up in poverty in Philadelphia; by the time of his death in 1974\, he was widely recognized as one of the greatest architects of his era. Yet this enormous reputation was based on only a handful of masterpieces\, all built during the last fifteen years of his life. \nPerfectly complementing Nathaniel Kahn’s award-winning documentary\, My Architect\, Wendy Lesser’s You Say to Brick is a major exploration of the architect’s life and work. Kahn\, perhaps more than any other twentieth-century American architect\, was a public architect. Eschewing the usual corporate skyscrapers\, hotels\, and condominiums\, he focused on medical and educational research facilities\, government centers\, museums\, libraries\, parks\, religious buildings\, and other structures that would serve the public good. Yet this warm\, captivating person\, beloved by students and admired by colleagues\, was also a secretive and mysterious character hiding behind a series of masks. \nDrawing on extensive original research; lengthy interviews with his children\, his colleagues\, and his students; and travel to the far-flung sites of his career-defining buildings\, Lesser has written a landmark biography of this elusive man\, which reveals the mind behind some of the twentieth century’s most celebrated architecture.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wendy-lesser/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170601T000000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170604T233000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223909
CREATED:20170430T015807Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170502T010649Z
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SUMMARY:2017 San Francisco Silent Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:JUNE 1\, 2017 – JUNE 4\, 2017 \n2017 San Francisco Silent Film Festival \nCastro Theatre | San Francisco\, CA \nJoin the Center for the Art of Translation at the 2017 San Francisco Silent Film Festival! Each year the Center sponsors new translations of silent film intertitles. Stay tuned for more information. \nSFSFF recently announced the rediscovery of a lost Cecil B. DeMille production—Silence—which is being restored by the Cinémathèque Française and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival as we speak. Silence will have its world premiere at SFSFF 2017. \nAlso\, the cat is out of the bag: Alloy Orchestra will premiere its new score for one of the most intriguing films of the silent era\, Teinosuke Kinugasa’s A Page of Madness\, in a new restoration. \nThe complete schedule will be revealed in late March 2017. \n\nCONTACT: \n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter \nlwoofter@catranslation.org \n(415) 512-8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2017-san-francisco-silent-film-festival/
LOCATION:Castro Theater\, 429 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170601T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223909
CREATED:20170504T005143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T005143Z
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SUMMARY:*RADAR SuperStars
DESCRIPTION:Join RADAR for its annual birthday and SuperStar Pride Program. On stage tonight are Ana María Montenegro\, Clement Goldberg and MariNaomi. Hosted by Juliana Delgado Lopera and sponsored by the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center of San Francisco Public Library. \nSee Queerest.Library.Ever. sfpl.org/hormelat20 for related online exhibits\, archives\, and resources.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-superstars/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170601T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170601T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223909
CREATED:20170527T012621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170527T012621Z
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SUMMARY:Radar Superstar: A Queer AF Variety Show
DESCRIPTION:Join Radar Productions for our annual celebration showcase. We choose 4 incredible queer artists and welcome you to the gorgeous Koret Auditorium for a free show! \nThursday\, June 1\nShow begins at 6pm\nSan Francisco Main Library\n100 Larkin Street\nKoret Auditorium (lower level)\nHosted by Juliana Delgado Lopera \nFEATURING…\nClement Hil Goldberg\nVanessa Rochelle Lewis\nAna María Montenegro Jaramillo\nMari Naomi\nLydia Greer + Shauna Fallihee \nClement Hil Goldberg is a multidisciplinary artist primarily working in film\, sculpture\, and animation to create a fabulous extinction aesthetic. Goldberg created the stop motion animated web series The Deer Inbetween and joined Michelle Tea to produce the 20-filmmaker collaborative feature film Valencia. Valencia won Jury Awards for Best Experimental Feature at the Polari Film Festival and Best Narrative Feature at Chicago Reeling in 2013. In 2016 Clement received their MFA in Art Practice and New Media certificate from UC Berkeley. Their current project Our Future Ends was awarded a 2016 visual arts Creative Work Fund grant in collaboration with CounterPulse. Goldberg’s work has been exhibited at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive and the Worth Ryder Art Gallery; Yerba Buena Center For The Arts\, SOMArts\, Luggage Store Gallery\, Artists Television Access\, all in San Francisco; and over 50 international film and arts festivals including Frameline\, Outfest\, MIX NYC\, Hamburg International Queer Film Festival and Cleveland International Film Festival. \nVanessa Lewis\, formerly known as Jezebel Delilah X\, is a queer\, lush-bodied\, Black\, femme performance artist\, writer\, actress\, filmmaker\, educator\, facilitator\, orator and Faerie Queen Mermaid Gangsta for The Revolution. She loves to flirt\, laugh\, perform\, crack corny jokes\, and insert Octavia Butler references into every conversation. She is a Co-Managing Editor for Everyday Feminism and Director of queer\, Black\, multi-disciplinary performance troupe\, Congregation of Liberation. She has performed in a wide variety of Queer theatre projects and cabarets\, and has been a featured reader at literary events all over the Bay Area. She uses a combination of memoir\, poetry\, theatre\, and feminist storytelling to advance her politix of radical love\, socioeconomic justice\, anti-racism\, community accountability\, critical reflection\, love\, healing\, and liberation. She loves romantic songs\, romantic films\, romantic books\, romantic conversations\, romantic friendships\, and writing long\, vulnerable\, passionate facebook statuses about romance. \nAna María Montenegro (1986) is a Colombian artist based in San Francisco\, CA. Her work is a series of conceptual experiments that deal with the structural rules that govern image composition\, the protocols of narrative genres and the cultural codes that affect them. She uses media that allows her to play with time\, text\, movement and randomness. \nMariNaomi is the award-winning author and illustrator of Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume\, Ages 0 to 22 (Harper Perennial\, 2011)\, Dragon’s Breath and Other True Stories (2dcloud/Uncivilized Books\, 2014)\, Turning Japanese (2dcloud\, 2016)\, and I Thought YOU Hated ME (Retrofit Comics\, 2016). Her work has appeared in over sixty print publications and has been featured on numerous websites\, such as The Rumpus\, LA Review of Books\, Midnight Breakfast and BuzzFeed. MariNaomi’s comics and paintings have been featured by such institutions as the Smithsonian\, the De Young Museum\, the Cartoon Art Museum\, the Asian Art Museum\, and the Japanese American Museum. In 2011\, Mari toured with the literary roadshow Sister Spit. She is the creator and curator of the Cartoonists of Color Database and the Queer Cartoonists Database. She has taught classes for the California College of the Arts Comics MFA program\, and is currently a guest editor at PEN America. \nLydia Greer is a visual artist and filmmaker whose work includes sculptural and video installation\, single channel video\, puppet theatre\, hand-made animation and works on paper. She works with themes of allegory and euphemism in narrative structures exploring the languages of psychology and theatre. Lydia is interested in the most elaborate forms of storytelling and time based art such as opera\, film and puppet theatre as well as the narrative charge of everyday objects and how communication ceremonies play out in the personal\, spiritual and historical/political arenas. Each narrative she works with is a misremembered\, taboo or unreliable story inviting audience engagement in narrative construction and play. From 2003-2007 she directed the LET’S DANCE SHADOW THEATRE\, a handmade\, ragtag puppet company in Portland\, OR. Since then her mixed media work has been shown at the Exploratorium Museum\, Artists’ Television Access\, Pacific Film Archive/Berkeley Art Museum\, Santa Clara University\, Portland Experimental Film Festival\, Berkeley Center for New Media\, Adobe Back Room Gallery\, Royal None Such Gallery and SomArts among other venues. She has also worked as a puppeteer and designer with ShadowLight Productions in San Francisco. Lydia is currently the Artistic Director of Facing West Shadow Opera: a collective of predominantly queer artists\, filmmakers\, and musicians hybridizing art forms including live opera\, animation\, shadow theatre and found film to create unique performances\, each akin to a live graphic novel with euphoria-inducing live chamber music. \nSoprano Shauna Fallihee has been featured with numerous Bay Area ensembles including San Francisco Choral Society\, Masterworks Chorale\, San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra\, Open Opera\, West Bay Opera and the Old St. Mary’s Cathedral Noontime Concert Series. Deeply dedicated to the performance of new music\, Shauna has performed world premieres and contemporary works with Facing West Shadow Theater\, NothingSet Ensemble\, San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra\, Opus Project\, Wild Rumpus\, Ensemble Mik Nawooj and enjoyed a decade with new music chamber choir Volti. An active educator\, Shauna is on the voice faculty at Holy Names University\, Chabot College\, City College San Francisco\, Acalanes High School and the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir. She is also a Master Teacher Trainer for The Dailey Method\, an alignment-based Barre and Cycle fitness program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-superstar-a-queer-af-variety-show/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170522T131319Z
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SUMMARY:Scaachi Koul + Doree Shafrir
DESCRIPTION:A conversation between Saachi Koul and Doree Shafrir. \nA debut collection of fierce and funny essays about growing up the daughter of Indian immigrants\, addressing sexism\, cultural stereotypes and the universal miseries of life by rising star Scaachi Koul. \nIn One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter\, Koul deploys her razor sharp humor to share all the fears\, outrages\, and mortifying moments of her life. She learned from an early age what made her miserable\, and for Scaachi anything can be cause for despair. Whether it’s a shopping trip gone awry; enduring awkward conversations with her bikini waxer; overcoming her fear of flying while vacationing halfway around the world; dealing with internet trolls\, or navigating the fears and anxieties of her parents. Alongside these personal stories are pointed observations about life as a woman of color\, where every aspect of her appearance is open for critique\, derision\, or outright scorn. Where strict gender rules bind in both Western and Indian cultures\, leaving little room for a woman not solely focused on marriage and children to have a career (and a life) for herself. \nWith a sharp eye and biting wit\, Koul offers a hilarious\, scathing\, and honest look at modern life. \nScaachi Koul was born and raised in Calgary\, Alberta\, and is a culture writer for BuzzFeed. Her writing has also appeared in The New Yorker\, The Hairpin\, The Globe and Mail\, and Jezebel. She lives in Toronto. \n  \nMack McAllister has a $600 million dollar idea. His mindfulness app\, TakeOff\, is already the hottest thing in tech and he’s about to launch a new and improved version that promises to bring investors running and may turn his brainchild into a $1 billion dollar business–in startup parlance\, an elusive unicorn. \nKatya Pasternack is hungry for a scoop that will drive traffic. An ambitious young journalist at a gossipy tech blog\, Katya knows that she needs more than another PR friendly puff piece to make her the go-to byline for industry news.\nSabrina Choe Blum just wants to stay afloat. The exhausted mother of two and failed creative writer is trying to escape from her credit card debt and an inattentive husband-who also happens to be Katya’s boss-as she rejoins a work force that has gotten younger\, hipper\, and much more computer literate since she’s been away. \nBefore the ink on Mack’s latest round of funding is dry\, an errant text message hints that he may be working a bit too closely for comfort with a young social media manager in his office. When Mack’s bad behavior collides with Katya’s search for a salacious post\, Sabrina gets caught in the middle as TakeOff goes viral for all the wrong reasons. As the fallout from Mack’s scandal engulfs the lower Manhattan office building where all three work\, it’s up to Katya and Sabrina to write the story the men in their lives would prefer remain untold. \nAn assured\, observant debut from the veteran online journalist Doree Shafrir\, Startup is a sharp\, hugely entertaining story of youth\, ambition\, love\, money and technology’s inability to hack human nature. \nDoree Shafrir is a senior culture writer at BuzzFeed News and has written for New York Magazine\, Slate\, The Awl\, Rolling Stone\, Wired and other publications. A former resident of Brooklyn\, she now lives in Los Angeles with her husband Matt Mira\, a comedy writer and podcaster\, and their dog Beau.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/scaachi-koul-doree-shafrir/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170601T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170601T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223909
CREATED:20170528T203115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170531T002419Z
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi + Meron Hadero
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation about Kintu with author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Meron Hadero. The program will include a wine reception and booksigning. Tickets are $10 for non-members\, free for members of MoAD. \nFirst published in Kenya in 2014 to critical and popular acclaim\, Kintu is a modern classic\, a multilayered narrative that reimagines the history of Uganda through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan. Divided into six sections\, the novel begins in 1750\, when Kintu Kidda sets out for the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the kingdom of Buganda. Along the way\, he unleashes a curse that will plague his family for generations. In an ambitious tale of a clan and a nation\, Makumbi weavestogether the stories of Kintu’s descendants as they seek to break from the burden of their shared past and reconcile the inheritance of tradition and the modern world that is their future. \nJennifer Nansubuga Makumbi\, a Ugandan novelist and short story writer\, has a PhD from Lancaster University. Her first novel\, Kintu\, won the Kwani Manuscript Project in 2013 and was longlisted for the Etisalat Prize in 2014. Her story “Let’s Tell This Story Properly” won the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She is currently working on her second novel and a collection of short stories\, Travel is to See\, Return is to Tell. Jennifer lives in Manchester\, UK with her husband\, Damian\, and her son\, Jordan. \nMeron Hadero is an Ethiopian-American whose short stories appear or are forthcoming in Best American Short Stories\, Selected Shorts on NPR/PRI\, The Missouri Review\, Boulevard\, The Normal School Online\, Indiana Review\, among others. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan\, a JD from Yale Law School\, an AB from Princeton in history\, and is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto working on a novel and story collection.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-nansubuga-makumbi-and-meron-hadero/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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